 The Colorado Avalanche won the Stanley Cup, but there was some controversy along the way. The ending of game four, in particular, had a lot of hubbub. I headed this a while ago. I didn't get a chance to put it out. I'm still putting it out because it's interesting. Some people may not know about it. Other people definitely do. The people that were there sitting in the seats for sure know about it, and maybe they got their seats from our friends at Seat Geek who are sponsoring the video. So it's in OT. That's short for overtime. There's eight minutes left. The Avalanche are up in the series, two to one. A three to one lead is good. A pass, a move, a shot by Kadri. It's gonna go right under his arms, just a little floater, then up in the net and get stuck on the back bar, which confuses everybody a little bit because they're like, hey, where is it? But where'd it go? No goal scored, no whistle. They're searching for the puck. Stamco has found it. He's gonna go over there and sneakily just like, look the other way. I'm not doing anything, I'm not doing anything and knock it out of the net. Look at that, just throws it out of the net. So if you do find it, it's not in the net. They're not falling for it. They're like, that's a goal. The Avalanche starts celebrating. The lightning start getting sad. Look at that crowd, just happiness abounds. The coaches all look down right away, which I found interesting. Like what are all the coaches and players looking at? I didn't know that they have TVs down there. See, on the bench for replays. So when they're confused, they just look down to watch those and they say, okay, I guess that's a goal. Good job, good job. This fan, oh no. Oh my goodness, sad. These guys happy. And then afterwards, they're like, wait, that was fishy. And the lightning coach says it was a legal goal and he's heart breaks for his players. So there was too many men on the ice. Watch this. That's six guys on the ice. One, two, three, four, five, six. When Kadri, the guy who scores it, first comes in contact with the puck. Six guys. Now the rule is you can't get on the ice until the guy you're replacing is five feet from the bench. So there's a way that you see this screenshot on almost every goal and it's not illegal. That's just kind of like, if that guy, that's clearly by the bench, getting off the bench, it's just taking his time, just kind of standing around. There's not affecting the play. You see that all the time. It's not really illegal. So we gotta go back and see when did they change? And when the shot is put in, he's off the ice, there's five. But this is the line change that we saw. So I believe Kadri thought this guy, I don't know his name, sorry, was coming to the bench. So he jumps on to replace him, but he doesn't come to the bench. That's not, so right now there's, that's definitely a bad line change, which also happens and sometimes we let it go. The guy is right now, no one's coming to the bench. Eventually here he comes. So when they jumped, it was not five feet, all right? But then you gotta kind of think like, did it really benefit them? Is that what really helped him out? And I'm gonna say yes, actually, because look, there they are. He is way more than five feet away and he's on the ice. And let's see, what's five feet? If you take this player and you lay him down vertical, it's like six feet. Like where he's standing is five feet. So if he had to wait for him to get all the way here, Kadri would not be in position to get all the way over and catch that pass. He would have been way later to that pass. And this guy would have been the closest outlet pass and maybe they do that. But yeah, I'm gonna say this definitely helped them set up this play. Cause he should still, Kadri kept, look at this guy that he changed for. If you're following me, that's great. That's the whole point of it. So this guy over here is who he was changing for. So he should be jumping the boards right now when this guy is about five feet away. Instead, he's calling for the puck and then receiving it and then scoring the winning goal. So I gotta say, I think it's, I think they used an illegal line change to their advantage to win the game and go up 3-1 in the Stanley Cup. Think it was a botched call. Nice goal though. And the confusion of where it went in. That's fun as well. Not a lot of the fans understood. There's this one fan. I wonder if I have the shot of them. Yeah, right there, you see? Okay, I'll zoom in. That's the one Avalanche fan that was watching very close and saw that go in. And they are the official fan of the video brought to you by SeatGeek. Use code JohnBoy for $20 off your first ticket purchase. The app, they let you know what's a good seat. What's a bad seat? Not just good view, bad view, but say you like the 400 level. Well, this is your best bang for your buck. Say you want really nice tickets. Well, this is your best bang for your buck. And they use color coding to do it, which helps for dumb people like me. Congrats to the Avalanche. Better team, although I do think you benefited from an illegal line change to win this one. Two elements going at it. Lightning and Avalanche. They ever happen at the same time? I don't know.